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Review of Jacqueline Vanhoutte’s Age in Love: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court

By Rachel Aanstad

Age in Love: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court (U. of Nebraska, 2019) is a well researched and beautifully written book […]

Review of Darren Freebury-Jones’s Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival

By Michael P. Jensen

The first part of this book (Routledge, 2022) leads to chapter 5 and the subsequent chapters look back to it, […]

Review of Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds: Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now

By Sheila T. Cavanagh

Laury Magnus’s and Walter W. Cannon’s edited volume (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2021) demonstrates the strong value of its provenance from […]

Review of Ivan Lupić’s Subjects of Advice

By Maria Sequeira Mendes

“Not being counseled is bad, but being so is much worse,” claims a worried Ragusan merchant in a sixteenth-century comedy. […]

Review of Ann C. Christensen’s A Warning for Faire Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare’s Theater.

By Savannah R. Xaver

Ann C. Christensen’s edition of A Warning for Fair Women (U. of Nebraska Press, 2021) not only offers the early […]

Review of The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain, edited by Eduardo Olid Guerrero & Esther Fernández

By P.B. Roberts

As a student, I happened across Bichitr’s early seventeenth-century painting of the Mughal emperor Jahangir receiving a Sufi shaikh. Various […]

Review of Holly Crocker’s The Matter of Virtue: Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

By Laura Kolb

Holly Crocker’s The Matter of Virtue (U. of Penn. Press, 2019) argues that premodern authors figured women’s virtue as a […]

Review of Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden.

By Michael P. Jensen

This 2020 Cambridge University Press book is so dense, closely argued, heavily theorized and documented that it would take several […]

Review of Sara Munson Deats’ The Faust Legend: From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and Film

By Kevin De Ornellas

This is an old-fashioned monograph – agreeably so. It offers, basically, a chronological study of the Faust myth as it […]

Review of “Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction,” by Jonathan F.S. Post

By Hannah Smith-Drelich

Expansive for a volume with so little page space, Jonathan F.S. Post’s Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems: Very Short Introduction is […]

Review of David McInnis’s Edition of Old Fortunatus

By William N. West

Most modern students of early modern plays have their own responses to the questions “can this cockpit hold/ The vasty […]

Letting Hamnet Net Hamlet

By Scott L. Newstok

Awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, a finalist for the Irish Novel of the Year, and included […]